Table of Contents
Praise
Also by Andrew Burstein
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Postmortem
Medical Concerns
Chapter 1 - Dr. Dunglison’s Patient
Politics and Medicine Mix
“whether you may have had gonorrhæa”
“an old crazy carcase like mine”
“affections of the mind”
“a keen appetite”
Chapter 2 - A Sensational Vocabulary
Sensations, Nerve Fibers, Convulsions, and Spasms
Body Language and the Body Politic
A Salutary Education
Domestic Cares
Chapter 3 - An Utopian Dream
Jefferson Randolph
Grandpapa’s Ellen
To Reorient Nature: Jefferson’s Imagination
And yet, all is lost
Chapter 4 - Reading with Women
“Miss Edgeworth’s works. They are all good.”
A Fictionalized Jefferson?
“wicked and tyrannical men”: Godwin’s Caleb Williams
Taking Liberties
Chapter 5 - The Continuing Debate: Jefferson and Slavery
“turmoil of sensations”
Crude Assumptions
“a suspicion only”
Useless Iron
Lafayette’s Companion
The Importance of Skin
Chapter 6 - The New Debate: Sex with a Servant
Securing the Sexual Frontier I: Jefferson’s Options
Securing the Sexual Frontier II: Jefferson the Greek
“the fortuitous concourse of breeders”
“proof, defence & a substantial corpus delecti”
Ellen’s Sally
What Lies Within?
Some Inferences
Active Memories
Chapter 7 - Administering (Political) Medicine
Declaring Authorship, Defining His Revolutions
“nervous persons” with “languid fibres” oppose the republic of felicity
The “afflicting atrocities” of Politics
Chapter 8 - Writing (His Own) History
The Chief Justice Pierces Jefferson’s Skin
Henry Lee’s Tissue of Errors
Urging Justice Johnson
“first sympathies”
Jefferson Dying
Chapter 9 - Disavowing Dogma
Priestley’s Corruptions of Christianity
“Tyranny over the Mind”
Politics (and Little Theology) in “The Life and Morals of Jesus”
A Future State
Chapter 10 - Engaging the Soul’s Passions
Opium
July 1: The Arrival of Henry Lee
July 3: “Warn the Committee”
July 4: Peculiar Recognitions
“I Can Never Love Again”
Between Two Darknesses
Acknowledgements
ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page